false god

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To become capable of destroying a false god, she subjects herself to massive doses of radiation.

From Salon • May 24, 2026

Back in Germany, though, the rise of the Nazis is what sets Bonhoeffer on his Christian resistance path, disturbed by the country’s sudden fealty to a false god stoking “rumor and rage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

Worshipping the false god of perfection denigrates the fact that mere excellence not only exists, but also thrives, in many places and at many levels.

From Scientific American • Oct. 4, 2019

I think happiness is a false god to be worshiping.

From Time • Jan. 28, 2014

And this sentence, which comes to my lips tremulously, at once baleful and beaming with light, announces that death is a false god.

From The Inferno by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)